[Capdist-auditions] "Assassins" Auditions - Class Act Productions

[Class Act Productions]

Class Act Productions is currently casting it’s fourth season opener. Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, ASSASSINS is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.

This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheimand John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish rollercoaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final scene inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.  
AUDITION DATES:7:00pm at the Rexford United Methodist Church 

Monday, August 20th, 2012 – AuditionsTuesday, August 21st, 2012 – AuditionsWednesday, August 22nd, 2012 – Call Backs

Please prepare 16 measures from a Broadway musical for your performance. Prepared monologues will not be required, as sides from the show will be provided. 

LOCATION:

Rexford United Methodist Church 18 Main StreetRexford, NY  12148

REHEARSAL INFORMATION:

Rehearsals begin Monday, August 27th, 2012
Mondays/Wednesdays/Thursdays – 7:00pm
Sunday Rehearsals at 2:00pm will begin in Late September/October. 

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION: October 26-28 and November 1-4, 2012Schacht Fine Arts CenterRussell Sage College Campus

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the director, Michael Ciaravella, at MCiaravella at gmail.com.  ROLES AVAILABLE:  BALLADEERA folk singer and  the narrator of the show. The voice of America. 
  Male, 20-40 yrs old 
  Range: C3 - G4 BILLYSara Jane Moore's  whiny son. 
  Male, 8 - 10 yrs old 
  Speaking Role CHARLES GUITEAU(1841-1882)  Assassinated President James Garfield in the waiting room of the Baltimore  and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. Dashing but  mad. 
  Male, 35-45 yrs old 
  Range: A2 - Ab4 DAVID HEROLD(1842-1865) One of  John Wilkes Booth's confederates. Aided Booth in his attempted escape. 
  Male, 20-25 yrs old 
  Speaking Role EMMA GOLDMAN(1869-1940)  Turn-of-the-century Anarchist agitator and feminist. Terse and stubborn. An  inspiration to Czolgosz. 
  Female, 30-40 yrs old 
  Speaking Role ENSEMBLEBystanders;  Tourists; Reporters; Photographers GIUSEPPE ZANGARA(1900-1933)  Attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt as he greeted  well-wishers in Bayfront Park, Miami, FL on February 15, 1933. An angry,  heavily-accented immigrant. 
  Male, 30-35 yrs old 
  Range: B2 - A4 JOHN HINCKLEY(1955- ) Attempted  to assassinate President Ronald Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton in  Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981. A love-obsessed and depressed college  student. 
  Male, 25-30 yrs old 
  Range: A2 - G4 JOHN WILKES BOOTH(1838-1865)  Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln during a performance at Ford's Theater  in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. Foreman and inspirational celebrity to  the other assassins. 
  Male, 25-35 yrs old 
  Range: F2 - G4 LEE HARVEY OSWALD(1939-1963)  Assassinated President John F. Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas  School Book Depository in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963. A suicidal,  dejected shipping clerk. 
  Male, 20-25 yrs old 
  Range: G3 - C4 LEON CZOLOGOSZ(1873-1901) Assassinated  President William McKinley at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. on  September 6, 1901. A young poverty-worn radical. 
  Male, 25-30 yrs old 
  Range: G#2 - G4 LYNETTE  "SQUEAKY" FROMME(1948- ) Attempted  to assassinate President Gerald Ford at the Capitol Park in Sacramento, CA on  September 5, 1975. A pixie hippie in love with Charles Manson. 
  Female, 25-30 yrs old 
  Range: A3 - G5 SAMUEL BYCK(1930-1974)  Attempted to assassinate President Richard Nixon by hijacking a commercial  jetliner. Hysterically irate schlep in a Santa Claus suit. 
  Male, 40-45 yrs old 
  Range: D3 - G4 SARA JANE MOORE(1930- ) Attempted  to assassinate President Gerald Ford at the St. Francis Hotel in San  Francisco, CA, on September 22, 1975. A frazzled housewife with little sense.  
  Female, 40-45 yrs old 
  Range: F3 - Eb5 THE PROPRIETORA mysterious man who  runs the shooting gallery at a carnival. 
  Male, 30-50 yrs old 
  Range: Gb2 - F4  		 	   		   		 	   		  
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